AT2: LEARNING FROM RELIGION AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE

F: PEOPLE'S VALUES AND COMMITMENTS (ETHICS)

This area of enquiry may include study of, eg values, principles, rules, moral dilemmas.

Pupils can:

  1. identify what is of value and concern to themselves and give a reason

  2. identify what is of value and concern to others, including people with a faith commitment, and suggest reasons for their importance

  3. make links between values and commitments, including religious values and commitments, and their own and others’ attitudes and behaviour

  4. ask a range of questions about choices and decisions and suggest what moral implications may be involved, making reference to the teaching of religions where appropriate

  5. express their own values and commitments and review them in the light of other people’s values and commitments, including those held by people with a faith commitment

  6. demonstrate a critical awareness of and respect for people’s values and commitments, including those held by people with a faith commitment

  7. explain their own values and commitments, with supporting arguments and evidence, in relation to religious and other teaching on a contemporary moral issue

  8. evaluate their own and others’ views of religious and other values and commitments with sensitivity to people's concerns and convictions.
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